11 June 2005 photo courtesy André Kritzinger.
11 June 2005 photo courtesy André Kritzinger.
11 June 2005 photo courtesy André Kritzinger.
This picture was taken on 28 July 2008 by Johann & Elsie Kritzinger.
No 1369 was built in 1928 for branch line use.
The Class 19 series were designed as 4-8-2 branch-line locomotives.
The first four Class 19 locomotive no's 1366-1369 to the design of Col. F.R. Collins, were delivered by Berliner Maschinenbau as works no's 9279-9282 in 1928 and placed in service on the Kimberley-Vryburg line.
They were superheated with bar frames and Walschaert's valve gear and proved extremely successful, having spent most of their working lives at Empangeni on the Natal north coast.
When one of these engines no 1367 required a new boiler in 1966, it was rebuilt with a No 1A boiler and became the sole Class 19R. All four of these engines were withdrawn by 1977.
This type 4-8-2 locomotive is plinthed at the western end of Main Street in Breyten as shown in this 2006 Google Earth view.
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